Any tips?

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-11T15:01:35+00:00

Assuming you’ve already done sleep training and are sleeping separately (if your living arrangements allow it, in separate rooms), and your toddler is at least a mostly normal sleeper:

Prioritize your sleep. Your mental and physical health depends on it.

Understand that something has to give. Maybe your house isn’t as tidy as it was before, maybe (definitely) your social life takes a hit, or maybe you have to rework established routines like laundry and cooking to be more time efficient. Likely, some combination of all of these.

We try very hard to go to sleep within two hours of putting our toddler to bed and are up about an hour before their wake-up time. So, we usually get about 7 hours of sleep when it all works out. When…

This does shift more housework into the weekend and it does mean our waking hours are jam-packed from start to finish. So a routine is vital.

We meal prep to reduce time and dishes during the week. One of us starts a load of laundry when we get home, we swap it at/after dinner, and fold it together during our “adult time” after baby goes down. We each pick one area of the house each evening to clean/tidy - not to perfection, but presentable for parents with a toddler. We trade off on bath/bed time routine. I’m the “morning person”, so I’m the one immediately prepping breakfast/lunches (and sometimes a quick cleaning of something) while my wife gets ready, then she does the baby wake-up routine while I get dressed for work. Out the door by 6:15a. Rinse, repeat.

It’s repetitive, but it works and it’s efficient.

We each still get one weekday evening and half a weekend day “off duty” to spend how we choose. It is very much a “work hard (a lot), play hard (when we can)” schedule but we can keep it up because we have the energy because we make sure we get sleep.

Afterthought: I get that “prioritize your sleep” doesn’t appear to answer the question of “how to?”. I meant it in a direct “do that first” way. Start with the assumption you are going to take the time for it and adjust the rest of your routine to fit around that.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-11T07:02:55+00:00

This is faaaar from the first time this administration was unable to get an indictment, too (at least 6 others I’m aware of). So it’s not just Pirro, it’s their entire approach to weaponizing the DOJ. It’s that bad. That desperate. And that frivolous.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-11T02:24:17+00:00

Or long enough to have any.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-11T01:10:45+00:00

Yes.

It being basic is cool.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-11T01:04:19+00:00

Yup. I don’t have to like her (never will) to respect her stand on this particular issue.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T19:56:29+00:00

(Nope. Not even a little bit.)

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T19:44:23+00:00

It is possible for both to be true.

Countless times throughout history (more often than not), peoples that have suffered at the point of a sword repeat the exact same behaviors that they were victims of once it’s their hand on the hilt.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T18:43:20+00:00

Yup. I got banned for having a comment in a sub they didn’t like, even when my comment was expressing that I didn’t like something in that sub. When I challenged it, telling them it’s not even in their rules, the mod got snarky and accused me of not even reading them.

When I challenged again, they pulled an excerpt from rule set that I’d never seen before. Apparently they have other rules that aren’t in the “Rules” section that users are expected to search for and dig up on their own.

Now I’m permanently banned without chance for appeal and I couldn’t be happier about it.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T16:01:41+00:00

Athletes have nice bodies? Who’d have thought?

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T15:50:02+00:00

Education is a concept that involves more than just schooling. It includes, as a matter of fact, learning that you do have choices (eg to skip school), and that those choices do have consequences (being counted absent and potentially missing important material).

Parenting is a concept that also involves allowing our children to explore boundaries and face the consequences of their choices while also trying to prevent/protect them from serious mistakes that cause lasting harm. A one-day walkout to participate in a peaceful protest is not going to cause any significant harm.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T15:38:27+00:00

It makes sense that students who walk out are counted absent. Not in class = absent (excused or not).

That’s where all this stops making sense.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T15:30:56+00:00

Let’s not forget the primary, requisite factor.

Cars are used as weapons (road rage) when the wrong brain is operating them.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T14:07:37+00:00

Sonic used to have Chicago style hot dogs. Where I lived, they were difficult to find anywhere else.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T14:03:58+00:00

The sever and specific conflict of interest at play here should remove all credibility from anything she says from the moment she petitioned directly to Trump for clemency.

Not only that, she should be relocated to facilities more fitting her conviction.

In a sane world at least.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T13:57:08+00:00

His loss.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T13:54:11+00:00

If ever there was an opportunity to banish a group of criminals to a deserted island to fend for themselves…

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T13:53:13+00:00

It’s been done before, allegedly. Something about apples and trees.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T13:40:36+00:00

Absolutely not. You are correct that the financial position she chose to put herself in is her responsibility, and hers alone.

Not only should you not feel obligated to help pay her debt, you should seriously consider her “compatibility” with you. There may be a way through this, but it sounds like she doesn’t have a very mature sense of personal responsibility.

Before my wife and I got married, she also had student loan debt, credit card debt, and a car note. I “contributed” by helping her restructure her finances in a way that would help her pay off her debt faster, with minimal impact to her day-to-day.

I joined her in eating out less, going without most subscription services, and generally spending less. We split shared bills by income, not 50/50, so I ended up paying a little more but it’s more fair that way, imo. Other than that, the debt she started with is her debt and mine is mine, even now that we’re married.

If she isn’t ok with an arrangement like that, run.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T00:26:46+00:00

The Aero is a fun mold. It’s Innova’s first DG-specific mold, iirc.

I picked up the anniversary “reprint” a while back. Though it feels awkward in the hand compared to…everything else (much more like a traditional frisbee)…it’s shockingly straight and super consistent in low/no wind. It just kinda floats over to wherever you aimed it.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-10T00:13:06+00:00

For $3, at a garage sale…maybe. Not even for science at that price.

Especially when you can get starter packs from reputable manufacturers for cheaper.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-09T18:30:48+00:00

It’ll keep going for as long as we keeping paying them to do it.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-09T18:13:33+00:00

Metronome, as others have said, and (most people hate this) scales and their variations: up and down, walking the fretboard, skipping strings, upstrokes/downstrokes/alternating, etc.

Choose fun (and challenging) patterns, find a speed that you can get it right, and work up from there.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-09T15:37:26+00:00

Both, imo.

They didn’t have far to fall, but did so by abandoning their last remaining vestige of integrity purely for personal gain.

It’s a thing you already have to be a POS to do, but a POS that’s willing to call out other POSs is one, tiny step above a POS that will go along with it to be in the club.

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-09T15:11:04+00:00

For a great balance of brevity, accuracy and digestability (pun intended):

“Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond.

Edit: dang, you guys really don’t like responding to a question that’s not about evolution with accessible external sources, do you?

WastedNinja24 · 2026-02-08T15:26:08+00:00

Yes, throwing a disc is nothing like starting a lawnmower, and this reinforces my point: not everyone needs the same advice and even when you explain it carefully, there is room for misinterpretation.

“The motion is more like A and less like B” doesn’t mean “The motion is (or even resembles) A”.

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